gdcmviewer (1) Linux Manual Page
gdcmviewer – .TH "gdcmviewer" 1 "Fri Oct 29 2010" "Version 2.0.16" "GDCM"
Name
gdcmviewer – .SH "SYNOPSIS"
gdcmviewer [options] file-in
Description
The gdcmviewer is a simple tool that show how to use vtkGDCMImageReader. The class that use gdcm to make a layer to VTK. gdcmviewer is basically only just a wrapper around GDCM. This tool is meant for testing integration of GDCM in VTK. You should see it as a demo tool. It does compile with VTK ranging from 4.2 to 5.6, but only with VTK 5.2 (or above) can only play with the widgets (as described below).
Parameters
file-in DICOM input filename
Options
Options
–force-rescale force rescale (advanced users)
–force-spacing force spacing (advanced users)
-r –recursive Recusively descend directory
general options
-h –help
print this help text and exit
-v –version
print version information and exit
-V –verbose
verbose mode (warning+error).
-W –warning
warning mode, print warning information
-E –error
error mode, print error information
-D –debug
debug mode, print debug information
Typical usage
Simple usage
For now gdcmviewer should be started from a command line prompt. The next argument should be the name of the DICOM file you wish to read. For instance:
$ gdcmviewer -V 012345.002.050.dcmgdcmviewer will try to read your file, and the print the vtk information associated with this file. Basically what kind of image you are looking at.
- *
- ScalarType is the DICOM Real World Value type
- *
- Dimensions is the dimension of the image
- *
- Spacing is the spacing of the image
- *
- NumberOfScalarComponents should be 1 for grayscale & PALETTE COLOR and 3 for RGB, YBR data.